Category: Conflict and Security
Raising Stakes in a Losing Game: The Reprehensible Revival of Weapons of Mass Destruction
When trying to identify the most pressing threats to peace, it may seem tempting to look at novel scientific and technological developments, such as the weaponization of increasingly autonomous technologies
Read MoreYemen: The World’s Worst Humanitarian Catastrophe
Yemen is currently facing the largest humanitarian catastrophe the world has witnessed in the last hundred years. Approximately sixteen million people are without access to adequate food supplies and require
Read MoreThe art of the (no)-deal? – Assessing Trump’s “maximum pressure” strategy in light of the protests in Iran
“My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I am very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I’m after.” It has
Read MoreHuman Trafficking: How Western Policies Could Be Blamed
On an early Wednesday morning, the Essex Police made the brutal discovery of 39 bodies in a refrigerated container truck, east of London. Not all victims have been identified yet,
Read MoreThose for Whom the War Lives On – A View on The Aftermath of Agent Orange
As a geopolitical foreign policy strategy, the ‘Containment’ of a Communist spread into various regions of the Global South kept the United States actively engaged abroad throughout the Cold War.
Read MoreFighting for the Environment: Waging War & Making Peace in the Anthropocene
Merely two years after it won independence from Portugal, a devastating civil war erupted in Mozambique. During this brutal conflict, violence and starvation claimed over a million casualties and displaced
Read MorePower of the People: Ecuadoran Indigenous Movement Strikes Deal to Cancel Austerity Package
It is after almost two weeks of protests filled with smoke from teargas, streets piled high with tires, and clashes between police and protesters, that the Ecuadoran president Lenín Moreno
Read MoreThe Hard Reality of a Hard Border: Significance of a No-deal Brexit for Northern Ireland
Following the June 2016 referendum, rarely a day has passed when Brexit has not been of central discussion in the news. The referendum was predominately fueled by concerns about immigration,
Read MoreWhat is happening in Sudan?
Recently, social media has blown up with support for Sudanese protesters. Many have been sharing information about the crisis and urging people to inform themselves. Online, Western media has faced
Read MoreAvocado Mania: Pressing Environmental Concerns and Funding Mexican Drug Cartels
In the last fifteen years, avocado consumption has increased by 300% to a production of 4.25 billion avocados a year. Millennial trends have grown the popularity of this fruit and
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